“Just various daily necessities. It’s convenient to order online because it’s cheaper, and they deliver it right to the door. Our building doesn’t have an elevator, you know. I always leave some drinks for the delivery person and work hard to…”
Suddenly reminded of something, Taehui changed the topic of conversation.
“Sajun, did you send a quick delivery without telling me? When Kang Jooim introduced us, you reacted casually, and now you’re making me awkward again.”
“[I feel uncomfortable with any other woman except you. I can’t even look at them, and it’s uncomfortable to talk to them.]”
“….”
“[But since you said she’s your close colleague, I wanted to make a good impression. So, is that not okay?]”
Instead of asking what she would do if he were absent after a hundred days, Taehui asked differently.
“Sajun, how would you really live without me?”
“[Why wouldn’t you be there? I only look at you, talk to you, and want to keep you by my side.]”
Sajun’s faint laughter, like a night breeze, sounded as pleasant as it was melancholic. Perhaps because she had given up on her greed and resigned herself, her heart felt at ease. So, quietly listening, Taehui’s eyes widened.
Under the vanity, something dark brown seemed to be wriggling out, visible yet indistinct.
That long antenna, that deep color, and the undeniable size that couldn’t be ignored as a mere mosquito.
For a moment, she thought, could that be…?
In an instant, a cold sweat spread through her spine, and her body trembled with a cold shiver.
“Sajun, where are you?”
However, her tone when asking Sajun was surprisingly calm, even to herself. Maybe because it didn’t seem like a scary moment.
“[I’m here in Seongsu-dong.]”
“Really sorry, but can you come straight to my place now?”
You could catch mosquitoes, gnats, and even butterflies and moths. But she couldn’t catch cockroaches. Regardless of size, they were just too repulsive.
“[Mintaehee, do you, by any chance, miss me?]”
She no longer heard Sajun’s words. At the moment when the creature that seemed to be crawling out from under the vanity finally emerged, a loud scream burst from Taehui’s mouth.
“Kyaaah!”
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Precisely 35 minutes later, Sajun arrived in front of Taehui’s house. Without a single breath disturbed, he jumped over a few stairs, reaching the eighth floor. Sajun rang the doorbell, and as soon as the door opened, Taehui rushed into Sajun’s embrace.
In Sajun’s arms, the small and soft body, trembling and delicate as if about to break, was pitifully cute, but the feeling was as if she would collapse. However, her mood felt as if it would burst, so she liked it.
It was Mintaehee, relying on me and leaning into my arms.
The small, soft body trembling sweetly in the warm embrace was so delicate that it seemed about to break, yet the feeling was delightful, as if something pleasant was happening.
It was Mintaehee, leaning on me as she was first embraced.
With arms resting on her slender shoulders, Sajun, with the corners of his mouth trying to rise, asked calmly, “Where is it?”
“Over there, the box… I threw a book on it and covered the box right away.”
Muttering to herself like a soliloquy, Taehui didn’t bother to turn around and just extended her arm to point somewhere.
A flipped box was visible under the vanity.
“Sure it’s a cockroach?”
“For a bug of that size, it can only be a cockroach.”
“How big is it?”
Within Sajun’s embrace, Taehui trembled again.
“I don’t know. I was too scared to see it properly. But it was quite big. About the size of a thumb?”
Finding the usually strong and courageous Mintaehee frightened was cute and maddening, but Sajun decided to put those feelings aside for a moment.
Taking off his shoes, Sajun entered the house while still holding Taehui.
He could have asked her to come in after catching the bug, but he didn’t want to do that.
Holding Mintaehee, who nestled in his embrace, he thought, Why did she rely on me?
Carefully pushing the box with his toe, only books were visible; there was no bug.
“Is it alive?”
“Still can’t see it.”
“What should we do? Looks like I killed it with a book.”
The thin voice mumbling into his chest and the dampness felt refreshing.
This time, nudging the book with his toe, something that had been lying underneath moved.
How should one deal with a cockroach that was grateful rather than to kill it?
“It’s alive, though.”
As Sajun finished speaking, Taehui trembled once again in his arms.
“It’s a cockroach, right? Really big?”
The bug was not the size of a thumb but more like the size of an thumbnail.
An optical illusion born from fear. Dreadful for Mintaehee and grateful for Sajun.
However, with a heart as indifferent as a speck of dust, Sajun casually replied, “It’s a bit bigger than a thumb.”
Kyaaah! Mintaehee, who let out a small scream, plunged back into his arms, and at that moment, a smile spread across Sajun’s face.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
